Leaving Cert 2025: English Paper One – how would you get on?

Leaving Cert students share reactions to English Paper 1

Sarah O'Mahony

Leaving Cert 2025 has kicked off with thousands of students now breathing a sigh of relief that their first exam, English Paper One, is over.

From author Margaret Atwood to a Booker Prize-winning novel and a short story about a reckless character, the paper was varied but much to be expected for students.